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Sometimes, I can be a real spazz, and this, I suppose, is proof to the positive, but I thought I'd share. (I thought it was funny in hindsight) I had a couple of free hours earlier this week and headed over to the local stream for some nymphing. I was working a fairly deep hole and hooked up on a nice fish. I battled it for a bit and had stripped some line in. It then really took off downstream. As it was taking out line rapidly, I noticed that, while battling the fish, I had stepped through a loop of stripped in line and had it wrapped around my leg. As the fish took out line, the loop went up my leg to my thigh, so I couldn't step out of it. I had to fight this fish for a while threading line out behind my leg for a while until the fish tired and I could wiggle out. I'm sure if anyone was watching me, they would be rolling on the ground laughing at me. Nonetheless, I persevered and actually landed the fish. (It was a 18-19 inch whitefish). Anyway, the 2 hours were nice and I had a good bite, so I guess the river was humored by my klutziness.
What klutzy things have happened to you all, or am I the only one?
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Oh, I'm sure folks have all flavor of stories, but will they admit to them on a public forum?
I've had a few tangles and twists - nothing like getting a double, and ending up wrapped up. Motors, anchor ropes, nets, other rods/lines.
Recall a nice Musky hookup, went around the boat, nursed it away from anchor/motor - but then in trying to pull in the second rod, twisted lines. So I go to cut the other line, and woops. Wrong one. No drag, no chance, that fish was "Gawn!"
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I had to answer the call of nature and stepped into what I thought was quite concealing bushes. As soon as I got to the shaking part the DWR officer walked up. Wouldn't you know it it was the only female on the force. AWKWARD.
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I've had my fly line fall off the stripping apron in my tube and into the water. It then sank down below me and became tangled around my legs, which of course happened when I had a good fish on. It's very awkward trying to get it untangled from your legs while in a float tube.
This summer, while fighting a nice bass of around 18" in my tube, one of my fins came off and floated to the surface. I was spinning in circles the whole time I was fighting the fish. I'm just glad the fin floated or I would have been SOL on what turned out to be the best bass fishing trip I've ever had.
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[quote doggonefishin] while battling the fish, I had stepped through a loop of stripped in line and had it wrapped around my leg. As the fish took out line, the loop went up my leg to my thigh, so I couldn't step out of it..... [/quote]
OK -- now imagine that the loop was somehow around your head / neck. Also, imagine that instead of fishing for stunted brown trout, you're fishing for salmon. 18lb chum salmon. Fish that can actually pull really hard.
no, that didn't happen to me. But on a fishing trip to Canada for salmon we had a guest that was constantly getting his fly-line tangled around his neck, arms, legs, etc. We commented numerous times that "I sure hope he doesn't hook a fish when that line is around his neck"!
yikes.
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[#0000FF]This would fall under the heading of "Didn't happen to me but I was there when it did."
I was introducing a newbie tuber to the joys of fishing for catfish from a float tube...at Lincoln Beach. He successfully hooked and subdued two or three "average" sized cats without any problems. Then he went bendo on a big ol' daddy cat that had some attitude problems. When he had worked it in close to his tube the cat dove down, made about 3 or 4 quick wraps of line around the guy's ankles...above his fins...and effectively hog-tied him. The heavy line he was using held both the angler and the fish at a standoff. When I quit laughing long enough I kicked over to him and helped him both land the fish and cut himself loose from the line wrappings.
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[quote PBH][quote doggonefishin] while battling the fish, I had stepped through a loop of stripped in line and had it wrapped around my leg. As the fish took out line, the loop went up my leg to my thigh, so I couldn't step out of it..... [/quote]
OK -- now imagine that the loop was somehow around your head / neck. Also, imagine that instead of fishing for stunted brown trout, you're fishing for salmon. 18lb chum salmon. Fish that can actually pull really hard.
no, that didn't happen to me. But on a fishing trip to Canada for salmon we had a guest that was constantly getting his fly-line tangled around his neck, arms, legs, etc. We commented numerous times that "I sure hope he doesn't hook a fish when that line is around his neck"!
yikes.[/quote]
Yikes indeed. How do you even get a loop of fly line around your neck?
Was it W&B?
Good stories all. It is reassuring I'm not the only one. 
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I hate it when my line falls off the stripping apron and wraps around my feet.
I have also caught the back of my head before bit that is a different story altogether.
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[quote doggonefishin]
Yikes indeed. How do you even get a loop of fly line around your neck?
Was it W&B?
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no (LOL) it was not W&B!
I think this only happens with anglers that are very new to fly-casting. I can't reproduce it. But this guy was doing it fairly regularly.
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While fly fishing in my float tube I had bows go under my float tube and wrap around my legs and manage too get them out or they brake loose for me too catch them again in the uinta.
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